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Im looking for a nice show calf for my daughter. There is a sale coming up but I know nothing of the sires of these calves. Here they are. Please let me know which sire is best for market steer and heifer Walks Alone Presidential My Turn Paddy O'malley Black Gold Thriller

My 2 angus steers have been losing weight. both are 10 months old, dewormed every 2-3 months (rotating between dectomax and safeguard) they got Ralgro in sept. they get free choice 13% beef blend by Southern States and coastal hay. They are consuming approx 200lbs of pellets a week Any ideas?

I want to go get some insecticide tags for my calves. Which brand or insecticide ingredient is the best to use in the south? (florida)

Can an orphaned calf grow well enough to be a show animal? Wether it be a steer or heifer? In 2 years my daughter will be old enough to start showing beef. It is not uncommon to have a couple of orphaned calves every year and the ranch my husband works on will just give them to us since its not...

I have 2 steers. 1 is 13 weeks old and the other 10 weeks. Both are Angus cross (commercial beef) Both were orphaned and raised on a bottle until 8 weeks. They have free choice coastal hay and free choice grain/mineral. The younger one just isnt filling out. the older one was filling out nicely...

This steer was by an angus bull out of a hereford cow (with some brahma) Are these results good? he spent 160 days on feed. starting weight was 756lbs LW - 1285 REA - 13.2 FT - 0.49 %KPH - 2.5 QG - CHOICE- YG - 3.0

I need to figure out how to increase the fat content of our market steer without completely switching feeds. It took us forever to figure out how to get him to eat since hes so picky. His ration currently is 2.5% fat and I would like to increase it to around 4% (gets free choice bahai hay and is...

We havent been able to get our hands on my sons market steer since weigh in 3 weeks ago. the buddy steer we put in with him turned out to be a demon and our steer stayed with him. They were in a 1 acre pasture The other day we noticed the halter (with lead dragging) was getting snug and...

My sons market steer project started last saturday. His angus/herford steer weighed in at 756lbs. the fair weigh in is on 3/7/13 and he must show a MINIMUM of a 2lb/day gain (159 days) We have him in a fertilized pasture (were in florida, will have pasture until well into november, then will...

My son hasnt even begun to work his steer. we cut him out of the her on the 16th but the rains started and in 1 week we got 6 inches so no using the cow pens, the steer is back out on pasture with the keeping heifers. really hoping issac doesnt dump too much rain on us so the cow pens will dry...

OK, we've picked out my son's steer and he will be cut out of the herd thursday. At first he will be kept in a small pen until he's halter broke then he will be on a nice 1 acre pasture with lots of grass (here in Florida we usually have good grass until november) Initial tag in/weigh in is i...

We went back thru the herd and picked these 2 steers out. what do you thiink about them? the first one the pic doesnt do him justice, hes got a ton of muscle and his topline is really more level that it is in the pic. The second is a major chunk

we have narrowed our steer choice to these 3. the white faced one does have a small bit of brahma hump but not much. which one would you choose? sorry the pics arent better. they were taken in the pasture with my cell phone. there were many super nice angus but they were too young/small to be...

We are getting my son his first show steer. He has been showing heifers with his high school show team for the last 2 years (the school has their own herd of angus) however their calves are handled since birth and this steer hasnt been handled other than shots and castration. He is part of a...